It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“The sting of not having or not having enough bores a pain black hole that sucks all the other of life’s injuries… — Stephanie Powell Watts Copy Share Image
“Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly… — Mary Everest Boole Copy Share Image
There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from. — David Twohy Copy Share Image
In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
“Missing: A teenaged girl with lanky, blonde hair and a sunburst tattoo on her cheek. The holographic posters, brighter than day itself,… — Amy L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
The financial crisis just made the hole deeper, which is why our stimulus needs to be both big and smart, both financially… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I trust I may be enabled in the treatment of patients always to act with a single eye to their good. — Joseph Lister Copy Share Image
“It is not a simple thing to decide where we fit, for at one time or another in our lives we manage… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“Art, science, love, inspiration, ideals—choose out all the words with which humanity is wont, or has been in the past, to be… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“The basic sciences of anatomy, physiology, biology, and chemistry are linked to a patient at the bedside through very specific stories that… — Lisa Sanders Copy Share Image